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Founding of Ramat Yishai
Bialystokers formed the village of Ramat Yishai in Israel in early 1925.
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... In early 1925, a group of Bialystokers formed a
village in Israel, twenty kilometers from Haifa, called
Ramat Yishai. Its founders, most of whom were textile
tradesmen, wanted to establish a settlement in Israel
whose existence would depend not only on agriculture
but also on textile manufacturing. To this end, they
purchased 7500 dunams of land from the American
Jewish Land Society and subsequently built a textile
factory containing thirty-three weaving machines with
diesel motors. It cost $150,000 to purchase the land and
construct the factory. ...Connected nodes